Ash-receiver



E SCHROEDTER.

ASH RECEIVER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1920.

1,401,2 2, Patented Dec. 27, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND SCHROEDTER, OF BROOKLYN. NEW YORK. ASSIGNOR TO THE 0. MAURERCOMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF BROOKLYN,

NEW YORK NEW YORK. A CORPORATION OF ASH RECEIVER.

Application filed June 29,

To In whom it may concern:

lie 1t known that I, Emuxn Scnuonnrnu. a citizen of thel nited States,and a resident of Brooklyn, Kings county, and State of New York haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ashdieceivers, of whichthe following -is a specification.

My present invention is a receiver for cigar and cigarette ashesparticularly designed for use in sedans and in other closed cars.

The objects of the invention are to provide a holder which will be readyat all times to receive the ashes, which will pre vent scattering of theashes and which can be quickly and easily emptied and cleaned.

The invention involves a number of novel features of construction,combinations and relations of parts, as will be disclosed in thefollowing specification. which is to be read in conjunction with thedrawing accompanying and forming a part thereof.

In the drawing referred to:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the cover as lifted oil of thereceptacle.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of. the complete device- Fig. 3 is adetached detail view of the hinged flap.

The body of the device consists of a receptacle 5 of convenient size andshape. the same being herein shown as of substantially semi-cylindricalform in cross section. and as having a back wall 6 adapted to rest flatagainst the supporting structure. such as the dash of the automobile.This back wall is also shown as provided with means by which the deviceis detachably mounted on its support, such means including the key holeslots to receive headed supporting studs projecting from the ace of thesupporting structure. 7

The upper end of the receptacle is preterably cut on an outward anddownward slant. as indicated in Fig. 1. This upper end of the receptacleoriginally is entirely open, but in the completed device i closed by aninclined cover 8 which is shown-pivoted at its upper edge at 9 to therear or back wall of the receptacle. This cover may be formed with .adependent flange 10 fitting closely over the mouth of the holder, but soarranged as to not interfere with the cover swinging freely open whenthe receptacle is Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 27, 1921. 1920. Serial No. 392,628.

detached from its support and reversed to empty the contents.

In the central portion of the cover there is provided an ash receivingopening 11 and about this opening there is provided. an ash confiningguard flange 12. The upper edge of this flange may be substantiallyhorizontal, as shown, so as to form both a guard and a pocket receivingthe ash-end of the cigar or cigarette and directing the ashes into theopenlng.

The ash opening is closed by a flap or door 13 hinged at 14 to the underside of the cover and. suitably counterweighted as indicated at 15 so asto automatically swing closed as soon as pressure on the same isreleased.

In use, the cigar or cigarette is merely touched against this flap,which swings freely open and drops the ashes into the receptacle,closing again as soon as the opening force is removed. The guard flangeabout the opening both guides the cigar or cigarette and confines anystray ashes which may be flicked oil. causing the same to ,drop throughthe opening as the flap swings inward. \Vhen the receptacle is to beemptied, it is simply removed .from its support by lifting it far enough.toenable the heads of the supporting studs to passthrough theenlargements in the key hole slots and then,

upon inverting the receptacle", the cover will swing open and empty theentire'contents.

The downwardly inclined upper edge of the receptacle gives full-accessto the interior of the receptacle, and this, with the'wide open swingingof the cover and the easy removability of the receptacle from its sup-.

port. facilitates and promotes the cleaning of the receiver so that thesamemay be easily kept in a sanitary and wholesome condition.

In the particular construction herein shown thecover is hinged by meansof a pin inserted through pivot openings 16 provided in the dependentflange 10 of the. cover and through openings 17 in the side walls of thereceptacle, said pin being headed over or otherwise'fixedin thisrelation. Also in this particular illustrationthe cover is provided atthe rear with a dependent flange 18, the back of the receptaclebeing-cut down at 19 to receive the same. This dependent flange, whenthe receptacle is engaged with its support.

port, may bear against the surface of the support so as to prevent thecover being lifted when thedevice is attached to its sup- This preventsthe cover from rattling and from being lifted accidentally or other-Wise, so long as the device is attached to vits support, but when thereceiver 18 removed from the support, the rearward flange 18 of thecover no longer prevents the cover from swinging freely open andtherefore does not interfere in any way with the empty passage, aclosure for sai passage, and means for holding said closure normallyclosed but sensitive to the opening pressure of the ash end of a lightedcigar or cigarette.

2. An ash receiver comprising a receptacle provided with an ash passageand with aclosure therefor opening into the receptacle and balanced tonormally stand closed but to open upon contact of the lighted end of acigar or cigarette therewith and an upstanding external guiding and ashconfining flange about the ash passage.

3. An ash receptacle having an ash passage and a downwardly inclinedclosure therefor pivotally supported at its upper end and lightlybalanced to normally stand closed but sensitive to open upon contact ofthe ash end of a cigar or cigarette therewith.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of J une,1920.

EDMUND SCHROEDTER. In the presence of-- GERTRUDE J UDD.

